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The Empire: of Japan comprise nearly 13,000 cities', town and villages, in which 40,000,000 people live. It is announced officially that 40,000 persona wcro ponvortod to Christianity during the first nix month of 1882. To the exclusive use of white bread Sir James Crichton-Brown attributes, in the London Lancet, the prevailing decay in teeth. Tho Odessa correspondent of the Loo -ion News says that during 1891 109,515 porton emigrated from Russia to Amer ica. In 1800 85,5 18 Russians emigrated hither. A minor who long ago studied short band by tracing the characters with pin on a stone blackened by tho smoke of a lamp, is now a Member of tho British Parliament. His name is Kcir Ilardier. "I bate just carefully compared notes with a prominent Piiiladelphiaa of for. tune," says Ward McAllister, tho In Mious society loader, "and from his statements sm satisfied that for $2 ),000 a year one livis as well iu Philadelphia as one does in New York on 9 10,00. A welt-known agricultural writer esti mates in tho Chicago Sun that good roads would save the farmers of the United States $500,000,000 per year in the cost of getting thoir produce to market, or nearly fS to each inhabitant of the country, which is a fairer esti mate than to suppose the whole sum will he divided among the farmers alone. Eight States, learns the Courior Journal, have already equipped ' naval militia forces, organised in conformity with the National law, and the pre limlnary step toward such organization have been taken In two States. In view of this growth Secretary Tracy will atk Congress, to increase from $25,000 to t50,000 the amount appropriated for the equipment of the naval militia. The Regents of the State University of Michigan, chroniclo the New York Independent, have adopted a suggestion made by President Angell that the sal uries of professor, bo raised to prevent other colleges from constantly robbing him of his best assistants. The rise i from $300 to f 500 annually in each case, in accordance with the length of the term of service. Professor John Harvard Biles, de signer of the Inmau steamers City of Paris and City of New York, who camo ovet here to consult with the Cramps, the Philadelphia ship builders, ha boen taking a glance at our new navy, and this has led him to ob;erre that "'with such vessels as are qow in the service of the Government the United States Navy seed not take a back seat for any power on the globe." It begins to look to the New Orleans Picayune as though a large aud lucroa. ing market had been opened Iu Gonniny for the great staplo of the Mississippi Valley, corn. Report say that it is very rapidly becoming a favorite article of food. A sale of 43.0J0. bushels was made in Berlin the other day, and mills for the exclusive grinding of corn are in course of erection at Dresden, Leipzig, Hanover and Hamburg. CoaSroi.tfou ha beau received in Berlin of the rumor that the Germau Minister In China has become cuga.id to Miss Hart, tho daughter of hit Ameri can colleague, and it is equally true that the Emperor William has made bold to forbid the banns, an the ground that a German diplomatist, when in active service, cauuot wed au. alien woman without incurring the risk of prejudic ing the true and undivided service of l,:a Government. But love in this caec, r'-f-t the Boston Transcript, has also proved stronger than imperial lawp, and l.'crr von Brandt has announced his iu ti ntion of leading his bride to the tltar next spring. A a pieliuiiuary to this, of course, he will have to resign his post. . . Experiments with cyclists and carrier j igMn for transmitting mo wages aie I '-ing made by the gymnastic society of , ne in the iutereit of the Italian army, i ,ii rider carries a small cge attached : his machine, in which are soverul well ind pigeons. Whea impoi tuut ob . .'ii-us have becu taken and jotted i they are placed iu envelope! aud I to the bir is, which are liberated, vrtf instance thus far the birds have ; .'au promptly and iu a straight lino 1 .a k to huaihjuui teti over distances of noiu teu to twenty kilometres. It is thought that this combination of bicycle f .ij pigeon service can be very profitably e '.i in military obeei vations.and the Ital ian army otfica pnposes to coutiuua the t'l;el :iuelli. WINTRY CHBRR. Thre hundred years ago, or so, Th. best that could be had for gold, To t before th quson herself, Might make a carving-knife run cold: A peacock stripped and roasted I Then, Served in it feathered skin nd crest, And glorious In the amethyst, Emerald, and sapphire of its breast, With curving throat of asnre light, And In it gilded beak a flams, Held high by some fair lady's hands On a great silver dish it cam, And Cleopatra' purple sail Was duller than that streaming tail I When that great gorgeous bird was fit, I wonder how one lifted it I Talk of the good old times! Just think Of all the feathers and the fuss I Th times w hrtve ar beat of all The best is good enough for us I Look at this poenix, crackling hot, Done to a turn of it brown breast- From last year's ashes hsr again And never mind th peacock's crest I What will I haver An outside bit Whoa praisos epicures might sing The wish-bone, thank you, or perhaps The luscious picking of a wingl Come, let a royal feast begin When Mary brings th turkey in! For all their crest, and peacocks, too, I wouldn't chang with them would youf Harriet F. SpofTord, in St, Nicholas. VIOLA GAMBA. HAVE fought the batttos of life for ahem, let me see fifty years and up ward, - and I have never yet been wonted in a fair struggle. I do not see why I should per. mit myself to be at tacked, routed and nimtierl in . mntrpr S?like this. No, de- JJcidedly no; I think I have the key to the situation!" Although the Colonel' words and manner were indeed bellicose when he delivered this ultimatum, the occasion which prompted the outburst, like the gentleman's title, had no actual military foundation. The affair was purely civil in it nature, and the Colonel had only as much license to apeak after the fashion of a field officer as belongs to a man who has ouce been a loyal and enthusiastic member of the militia. It was quite true, however, that he had suffered less than most men from the cruel perverseness of things which con front uj in this lifo. Born rich, healthy and virtuous, and endowed with a charming capacity for shunning dis agreeable things; he had lived bis life thus far in the most optimistic maonor possible. Just now, however, his stronghold of serenity was threatened with vlgorou assault. Hi only son had sent word from a remote Yorkshire parish that he was on the point of marrying the eldest of family of seven daughter, tho property of the vicar, clergyman whose peculiar theological preferences had relegated him to obscurity and a stipend of 100 per annum. "She's the sweetest thing imaginable," Geof frey had written, with the flna discrim ination of a lover. "Just wait until we reach New York and she show on the avenue. The Colonel lost no time in cabling his most emphatic patornal dissent. He re ceived an almost immediate reply to place, the eiloct that tho marriage had taken This intelligence put him into state that was exceedingly uncomfortable while it lasted, but it did not endure. Perhaps the time-worn expedient of dis inheriting his refnetory heir did not occur to him, for his indignation ex pended itself in a message devoid of congratulation, in which he requested his son and Mrs. Geoffrey to linger in definitely at the vicarage. He intimated that an early applica tion for his parential blessing would prove to be for them a real ignis fatuus, but he tempered the severity of the state ment by sending a check for a sum which should have dous wonders in allaying the sting of paternal displeasure. It was a real grief for the Colonel the most poignant he had known since the death of his estimable wife, which had happened long before Geof frey was capable of inflicting any serious domestic wound ; but ho had much to console him, and, most fortunate of all, he had a hobby; it was the most delight fully and absorbing and self-engrossing distraction that a uiau can have be was an amateur organist. It must not for an instant be believed that he was a mere wanton ttiller with the noblest of musical instruments. His whole soul was In it, and ho was be lieved by his friends to be a virtuoso. His musical supper were tho talk of the town; to be bidden to them was tuneful surfeit, and not to know them unmelo dious gnashing of teeth. It was a de light as well as an apparent necessity for the appeasing of the constant yearning of his musical nature for him to direct the music in a large and fashionable church. lie was at this particular moment in Charge of the music at St. Nero's where he assumed the entire expense of the un dertaking, and supplemented his gener osity by having the organ rebuilt to meet his paiticular requirements. The music was quite as elaborate as any in town, and the diversion weut fur toward easiug tho pang of Geoilicy'a unrtlial con duct. But tho season advanced, and the ultro-ftshionablo worshipers of St Nero's deserted their temple and tied to summer resorts. It was then that the Colonel began to bestir himself to secure an assistant, for be did not sutler bis passion to interfere with the still potent magnetism of New port. Ho advertised ; there wero many who were willing, aud a timo wa ap pointed for a compaiative trial. Wuen the moment arrived tho Colouel stole away to the darkest corner of St, Nero's, VII I! resolved to eschew personal appearance ana to lot merit win toe test. The candidate who played last was the one that best met hi idea of what was required. Entering the organ loft by a side door he saw a rather fragile looking young woman perched upon the bench. "Parden me," he began, with a good doal of astonishment in his voice and manner. "Are you the person who bo just been playing the Bach fugue so well!" She turned with a startled look. "I was trying It," she admitted, "but I am afraid I made sorry work: of it." "By no mean," dissented the Colonel gallantly. "It was well done quite a well as I could have done It myself. Wo ore very fortunate to have found you, Miss what may I call you!" She colored and ' teemed to hesitate. "Gamba Viola Gsmba," she replied at last. Then she turned away and began to finger the stops nervously. After that they talked a little about her engagement, and then the Colonel took his leave. Mis Gamba from the first was a great success, ttne managed the great in strument in a manner that was little short of masterly. She alto made a de cided impression upon the member of the quartette. The Colonel, who was early on tho ground, was not long in dis covering that hi new assistant was as pretty a she was clever. The tenor was so distracted by her charming individuality that he took a throaty note in tho mid dle of hi solo. The soprano confided to the alto her intention of going straight home after service and repro ducing the newcomer' bonnet while the impression was fresh. The alto in return called attention to the heavenly fit of Miss Gamba's gown. Now that he might, the Colonel did not at once leave the city. The weather be came very warm indeed, but he lingered. He came regularly to all the rehearsals and services, but never once showed any disposition to resume his place at the organ. He seemed content to lit quietly in the organ loft. About midsummer the service were discontinued and the great oaken door of St. Nero' were to be closed. Before that time the Colonel had admitted to himself that Mis Gamba was the most interesting of women. -lie more than once found himself regretting that he must conduct himself toward her in the paternal fashion -befitting hi year, and ho often sighed deeply. He realized all at once that hi interest in neckwear was reviving, bu. the climax of his new con dition was reached on the eve of the last Sunday before the close of the season at St. Nero's. It happened, a he waa about to put on hi hat upon leaving his club, that his eye caught a glimpse of the band of crape which he had worn for bo many year iu unsuspecting and unvarying repetition. He held the hate ful thing at arm' length and gazed at it with horror. Then he called a waiter and bade him take the hat away. "Where shall I take it, sirl" the as tonished man asked. - 'Anywhere take It anywhere to a hatter, and have him remove that band Instantly. So you think I can go about looking like a hatchment!" demanded the Colonel, indignantly. In due time the man appeared with the offonding tile, now shorn of its ghastliness. The Colonel, properly re habilitated and rejuvenated, went to a florist s and secured the most satisfactory boutonniere that money could demand. Then he hurried away to the organ loft of St. Nero's, where the last rehearsal of the season had just been concluded. The quartet had departed and Miss Gamba was alone with the great organ. As the Colonel entered she was still play ing some softly-reminiscent thing. The loft was brilliantly lighted. Cue Colonel at that momeut made up his mind that St. Cecilia was an overrated creature, and that she suffered greatly by compar ison with the glowing picture before his eyes. She saw him in the glass and at once stopped playing and turned to greet him. He came up aud stood beside her. "Shall you remain in town during the summor!" he asked, rather abruptly. "Really I hardly know I have no plans at present," see stammered. "Pardon me," he said. "I thought perhap you might be going to your friends." "No," she replied, with a slight choke iu her voice. "My friends are very far away. I am prac tic illy friendless," "Oh, you must not say that, my dear Miss Gamba you really must not!" She .milled sorrowfuly and shook her head. "Really, Miss Gamba, I cannot permit you to say that you have no friends," he went on, reproachfully. "I should do myself a baso injustice if I did not beg you to recall those words." She pulled down the organ lid with a gentle touch and then began to put on a glove. "Am I not your friendt Has not that fact occurred to you ever?-' he con tinued, rather eagerly. "Of course it has often," she replied frankiy, giving him the ungloved hand. "I am so much interested In you. I wish I could tell you how interested 1 am in you, dear Miss Gamba," he said, still retaining possession of the hand. "You have been matt kind and con siderate," ehe said, looking him full in the face. "I am deeply grateful to you." "I want to bo I wish you would let me" he stammered, getting red in the face. "I I am very fond of you!" She did not sptmk nor did she take away her hand. "It seems to me now just at this moment" ho went on, recklessly, "that I would sillier anything just to to" "'"natl" "Kiss you I" Almost before the words had left his shamefaced lips the girl threw her arim about 'its aacK and kissed him once, tice, thrice. "I IthO y j i so muvhl" shii exclaimed. with a hand on each shoulder, holdind him at arm' length and looking hird full in the face. "I did not know I did not think" he choked, reaction setting in. "I never once dreamed of this t' "Nor did II" she declared, raptu onsly. "I never for a moment suspected that it could be brought about so easily. But I had faith in myself to believe that I oould do it in time. Geoffrey has lost his wager I" A sickening iight broke in up:n the Colonel' racked comprehension; this, then, was the young woman, whom he had advised to remain in Yorkshire. With the effort of his lifetime he held himself erect and in a true military tone said: "Madame, permit me to escort you to my house." "But Geoffrey I must go to him at the Victoria," she said. "Never mind Geoff," he replied, loftily; "I will send the carriage for him." New York Topics. Usrs of a Monster Search Light. A. C. Shaw gives ome interesting de tail concerning the operation of the Mount Washington search ligbc. Thou sands of copies of the code by which the transmission of signals to different points is effected, have been distributed in the country around Mount Washington, and the flashing of the light at night affords entertainment to the whole country side, especially to visitors at the hotels, who gather in knots in the piazzas, and dis cus the all-absorbing topic of "search light" and endeavor to read the messages signalled from the mountain. Mr. Shaw was at Maple wood, twenty miles from the top of the mountain by air line, when the projector was turned on to the hotel for about twenty minute one clear night. The light, even at that distance, was too bright to be looked upon com fortably, and by it the time on a watch could be distinctly told and the type of an ordinary headline could be read with ease. On white surfaces, such as the front of the hotel, a curious siimmerinz effect was produced. Small, dark patches leexted to float constantly over the surface, caused possibly by the mag nifying of minute particle of vapor in the atmosphere, or by some other phe nomena not yet explained? The signal ing U accomplished by a metal damper in the inside of the projector, which can be lowered between the arc and the lens by a lever extending to the outside and by means of which flashes of short or long duration can be mode. While possessing the great advantage of afford ing a means of transmitting intelligence over a wide tract of country this search light will be deprived of much of its usefulness under special conditions un less it can be utilized in connoctioiftf 'ith a secret code, and such a raetuOd of communication will doubtless bo made to supplement that already in operation. Chicago News-Record. The California Tarret Bnildor. On the Paciflo Coast there is a spider which build its house, so to speak, in a very peculiar manner, and is, therefore, styled the California turret builder. It mines into the ground more or less perpendicularly to the depth of eight or ten inches, and from a quarter to a half inch in diamoter. The size of the house varies, according to the sex and maturity. This burrow is lined wih silk throughout, and the nest of a full grown female will have a turret three inches in height above the surface of the ground. The material of the turret is made of whatever vegetation may be in tho vicinity, woven together with silk. It has a wide range over California, tho turret presenting a pleasing variation on account of the different materials with which they are mude. In the rainy sea son they dig and enlarge these tubes; but they do not then carry off or scatter the earth, but utilize it by building an other earthen turret, remindiug one, when finished, of a miniature vase iu terra cotta, without a lid or covering of any kind. The sexes occupy different nest; but the newly-hatched young aro always found with the mother at the bottom of her burrow, which is more roomy at the base than at the opening. It is closely allied to the trap-door spider of other regions, but is smaller and differ in other respect. It ia some times confused with the California tarantula; but Professor Rivers, from whose paper the above facts are gath ered, states that all the larger spiders, in various parts of the Union, go popularly is tarantulas. Ihe Caiiforuta turret building spider does not make a nest with a trap-door. New York Inde pendent. A Curious Hirer. One of the curiosities of Mexico is the Souora River. It rises ia the norteastura ' part of the State of Sonora and flows southwest until it sinks in about forty miles of the Gulf. Where it passes Herinosillo the quantity ot water it carries is immense, but in the short distance of twenty miles there ii not the least vestige of water, and a burning waste of sund extends from there, to the coast. Whether this water merely sinks into the sandy soil aud is evaporated by tho great heat, or ha some subterraueau outlet by which it reaches the sea, hn never been determined; and, as far as I am able to find out, no oue capable of judging such matters has ever visited the couutry. St. Louis Republic. Halt Batli at Home. It may, perhaps, not be known t everyone that a real salt bath cau be taken as well at home as at the sea shore, minus the exhilaration of wiud aud wave. A cup of rock salt dissolved iu water and ' added to the bath is a most refreshing tonic to the exhausted body. But don t go out of doors alter taking it. The best time to indulgo in the luxuries of a salt bath is just at bed time. Try tins ho ne-made oceau bath, and note its effects. Detroit Free Press. UNCLE SAM'S FELINE AIDS. THREE HUNDRED CATS EMPLOYED BY THS GOVERNMENT. Kept at the Fostofrloe to Protect f Tie Maila 1'nMieaolthe White House and the Capitol. ORE than three hundred "cats are maintained by the United States Government, the cost of their support being car ried as a regular Item on the accounts of the Postoffice Department. They are distributed among about fifty postoffices, and their duty is to keep rats and mice from eating postal matter and mail sacks. Their works it of tho utmost importance wherever large quantities of mail are collected as, for example, at the New York postoffice, where from 2000 to 3000 bags i f such material are commonly stowed away in the basement. Formerly great damage was often done by mischievous rodents, which chewed holes in the sacks and thought nothing of boring clear through bags of letters in a night. Trouble of this sort no longer occur now that the official pussies stand guard. Each 'city postmaster is allowed from (8 to $40 a year for the keeping of his feline staff, sending his estimate for "cnt meat" to Washington at the beginning of each quarter. Care is taken not to feed the animals too high In order that their appetite for live game may be keen. It is laid down as a rule that no moat shall be given when there is a mouse or a rat to be caught. Cat are kept in all the Government buildings at Washington. In that of the State, War and Navy Departments they are employed not only to protect the priceless papers stored there, but to guard against fire. Twice tho War Department has been set on fire by rats gnawing matches on one ot the?e oc casions in the office of the Secretary of War, in the middle of the night. A year ago the Treasury bad nine cats, but they made themselves obnoxious and all were given away but two. These are as wild as possible, getting a living by foraging for themselves. Mice arc no toriously fond of chewing up money, but they have no chance of getting at Uncle Sam's paper cash, which is kept in rooms with iron walls that defy their teeth. Rats occupied the Pension Of fice in great numbers while it was iu process of building, taking up their re sidence in the walls and floors as fast as they were put up. Two years ago tour cats were introduced there to guard the records of the old soldiers and they have driven most of the vermin away. The best rat killer of the quartette not lorg ago, being frightened at something fell from the second gallery fifty feet to the tiled floor and wo killed. The Whito House has two cats, one a black and white female, kept in the kitchen, and the other a black Tom, which belong in the stable. Mr. Harrison had four lovely Maltese pussies, but they all dis appeared stolen most likely. But the Capitol is the greatest placo in Washington for cats. The huge structure is fairly aswaroi with them, and at night they scamper about In troops. Nobody knows how many of them there are, but the watchmen reckon them by scores. They are all vagrants and wild as hawks. In summor they are scattered about the neighborhood to come extent, but in winter they gather within the building. About 10 o'clock every night they begin a mad raciu through the empty corridors, which arc made to resound with their crio?. The acoustic effects produced are astonish ing. Let a single grimalkiu lift up his voice ia statuary hall, famous for its echoes, and the silence of the night is broken by a yell like that of a damned soul, as loud a a locomotive whistle, A favorite place for cat concerts is the whispering gallery down below, known a the "crypt," where the feeble lound i magnified into a roar. Imagine the demoniacal ensemble of half a dozen feline songster in such a spot. The British Government pays certain sums, regularly passed through the ac counts quarterly, for providing and keeping cat in public offices, dock yard and (tore houses. Rats and mice used to do great damage to paper in the imperial printing office of France, but now a sum is appropriated yearly for maintaining a staff of cats there, which are fed twice a day and carefully looked after by a man who is paid for that service. In Vienna four cat are em ployed by the authorities to catch mice on the premise of the municipality. A regular allowance is voted lor their keep, and after a reasonable period of active service they are placed on the retired list with comfortable pensions. The Midland Railway of England supports eight cats at Trent, which are borne on tho company's pay rolls for milk and meat. Their duty i to guard hundreds of thousands of empty corn sacks, and the importance of their work may be es timated trom the fact that twelve women are engaged all the year around in darn ing holes eaten by rats in the sacks. Washington Star. The Bog Kuew Ills Master. A good dog story comes from Hun gary. It seems that an itinerant knife grinder came to town and reported to the police that a certain ragpicker had stolen his dog, a valuable Dane. The parties were brought before the court, and a the testimony was very unsatis factory the judge, a sort of Solomon, de cided that the dog should be allowed to choose between the claimants. Tue two were placed on opposite sides of the room and the dog was set at liberty mid way between tbein. Both began calling him in the most seducive tones. He looked first at one aud then at the other in an uncertain way, and then, jumping over the table, mude for the door and disappeared. It was fouud that ho ha I gone straight to the house cf a gentle man trom whim he hud been stoleu by the knife-grinder. New York News. Great Britain has eighty-eight war ships of which twenty ate battle ships ot the first clou. SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Celluloid is said to have been discov ered by Hyatt a long ago as 1689. . Water in which salt is dissolved boll at a slightly higher temperature than pure water. The Great Dipper revolve around the North star in twenty-three hours, fifty six minutes, four scond. Spider are solitary in tbe'.r babita. The tradition that'they are weather proph et is not credited by scientists. Sugar fifteen times sweeter than that produced from the cane is being made from cotton seed grown at Witu. German scientist will use the Em peror's donation in the construction of a large balloon for scientific purposes. Liquid carbonic acid is now sold in Paris at about five cents a pound, most of it being used for making salicylic acid by reaction on sodium phenol. Tarlatan has superseded calico for bandages in Paris hospitals, where 1188 miles of the former material were used in 1891, at a cost of nearly 30,000. Recently the police force of certain parts of London were provided with elec tric lamps in placo of the usual "bull's eye" lanterns, and the change was much commended. Professor C. A. Young announces that the fifth satellite of Jupiter has been seen by his assistant, Mr. Reed, with the twenty-three Inch equatorial, at Princeton, N. J. Cresoted wood has been found to havo such excellent lasting qualities that its economical properties have suggested its use for permanent haulage, roads, shaft ways, etc., in collieries. Fish, flies and caterpillars, though frozen solid, retain life because their construction admits of frost expansion without disruption ; a freezing tempera ture only results to them in torpor. It has been found by J. Wiesner that, while gas-light only (lightly yellows and weakens wood-paper, toe influence of the electric light is still les, and he pro nounces the latter the best illuminant for libraries. A recent scientific expedition show the existence of terraces in Palestine, showing that at one time the Dead Sea had risen to the level of the Mediter ranean, the Jordan in tho glacial period forming a lake 200 miles long. Two Italian physiologists have fouud that ionoculations for securiug immunity from infectious diicase have no effect if the spleen has been removed, no other organ being able to carry on the particu lar function upon which immunity de pends. A Genoese electrician has adopted electrio heating to conservatories. The current is sent into receivers of special composition, which become heated with out, however, exceeding a certain tem perature. The advantages claimed aro the absence of all unwholesome gases or vapor that might injure the plants, the perfect safety a regards heat, and the cleanliness ol the system. Effect of Cold and Heat on Fool. The necessity of cooking food to do velop or create a palatable taste is im portant. The flesh of fowl is soft enough to masticate, but only a person on the verge of starvation could eat it before heat has changed its taste, and thus made it one of the most savory and ac ceptable of meats. Coffee also well illustrate! this point. When coffee is green, that is unbrowned, it is acrid in taste, very tough, even horny in consistency, and a decoction made from it is altogether unpleasant. But when, for a certain time, it is sub jected to a degree of hoat it loses its toughness, becomes brittle, chauges color and there is developed in it a most agreeable flavor. This flavoring prop erty is an actual product ot the beat which causes chemical chaogos in an es sential oil contaiuod in the bean. Heat not only develops but creates flavors, changing the odor and taste as well as the digestibility of foods. Some foods are better for being cold. Sweet dishes as a rule are improved by a low temperature. The flavor of butter is very different and very much finer when cold than when warm; it i absolutely necessary to keep it cool in order to pre serve the flavor. Atlanta Constitution. Monstrous Forcj of Tornadom. Much has been said about electricity as a factor for destructiveness in the various gyrating storm clouds known as cyclones, drechoes nnd tornadoes. Iu all of this voluminous mass of so-called scientific opinions and deductions one fact seems to have been entirely over looked, viz: The almost resistless force of wind when moving with high velocity. When the velocity is but titty miles an hour the pressure of air iu motion is equal to twelve pounds to the iqimre foot, and when this velocity rises to 100 miles per hour its force rises to the equivalent of 49.2 pounds to the square foot, the augmentation of force being always proportional to the square of the velocity. It needs no further e'aboru tion or amplification of this statement to convey to the intelligent reader au idea of the monstrous mechanical force which such a rapid traveling mass ot air must have a power great enough to tear down any structure that ba yet been built by uiau, or to uproot whole forests ol the largest trees now growing on the surface of the earth. St. Louis Republic. Nut Mo JIuJ, After All. A visitor to Lancaster asylum a short time ago encountered one of the luuatici (who doubtless bad been told off foi work of some inscription) pushing a wheelbarrow alou oue of the sidewalks wrong side up. The visitoi inquire 1 why he reversed the order of things ia that fashion. "Why, you stupid, do you thiuk I'm madf was the lunaticV reply; "if I turned the right side up they'd be pur ting something into it." Boston Globe, the modsbn knioht. 1 Bis shield was bright, that Knight of old, Hi sword was keen, his courage high: In shining steel on charger bold. He bravely rod to win or die. , . In battl fl woe be sought bis fame, Or in th tourney sword to swordt Diaoourtary hi grwttmt sham His Usdr's smile his best reward. H bears no shield, our modem Knight, No glittering sword or lance ha wields, Yet well ha know the kn delight That oonrag find in warring Balds. To bear th ball beyond th goal. To check th rush, to tackle true. Inflame as much th striving soul As Jooat or combat used to do. And who shall say that courage high Ha not it place in modern life, When thronging thousands testify Th manly love for manly strife? Our Knight that nobly play their pSftS Know th stern Joys that warriors feel, And canvas jackets cover heart As brav as ever beat in steel ! Outing. HUMOR OF THE PAT. A soft answer will kill where a club would fail. Ram's Horn. There are men who tire themselves al most to death looking for an cosy place. Ram' Horn. It isn't the "flisrhty" poet who 1 re sponsible for all the fugitive verses. Boston Courier. The humorist of this country seem to have made a butt of tho goat. Phila delphia Record. Broom "So you are ou your wedding tour, eh?" Groom (sadly) "No; a lec ture tour 1" Truth. In hi moment of abstraction even the pickpocket thinks timo is money. Philadelphia Times. Tne trouble is that you never kuow when you've got enough until you've got too much. Puck. Peoplo who aro always looking for trouble generally run when it looks for them. Milwaukee Journal. A man who lives fast cannot expert that enjoyment will keep up with him. Binghamton Republican. Coasting is ve.-y excellent sport, but, like some other amusements, it ha its drawbacks. Souierville Journal. Gay "The Widow Weed wears very heavy mourning." Day "Yes; but sho doesn't feci as black as she is dressed." Puck. All sorts of vexations attend the par lor matrimonial match. Even the lamp is frequently put out over it. Bingham ton Leader. There are some men who can't tnko home a beefsteak without believing they are taking their wife a present. At chison Globe. More people with patent leather shoes on borrow money they nevor pay back than men who wear shoes that aro patched. Atchison Globe. The next thing a long-suffering public learns will be the fact that go compan ies ate putting pneumatic tires on thoir gas meters. Ohio State Journal. Man goes to law to get bis right, (Of common sense bereft,) Ignoring that in such a tight. All others have trot le(u ' boston Transcript. "What coat of arms is that on the panel of your carriage?" "Givo it up. Had to have it stuck on before we could engage a footman,'" New York Her ald. - Men are a good deal better collec tively than they are individually. Miny a man will do that privately which he will denounce iu a crowd. Atchison Globe. As a rule, a man who has a mustache he can twist, or whiskers be cau stroke, is three times as loni( making up his mind as one who hasn't. Atchison Globe. Appearances Not Deceptive. I'ritcil la "When Charlie proposed to me the poor fellow did look so billy." Prun ella "Well, no wonder." New York Herald. Thero's plenty oC r om at the top, but you shouldu't tell au ambitious artist so just as he is on the point of sending bis picture to the exhibition. Somerville Journal. Mr. New "Ou the stage they always have such dolt, woodeny actors to rep resent dukes and kings." Mr. Kuow "Yes; that's so to havo them true to life." Puck. Bogg "Hello there, Joggs, what are you going to do with that keg of powder?" Joggs "I am going to try to blow myself away from a porous plaster that is on my back." Harvard Lampoon. Admiring Neighbor "Do you thiuk the pretty pet is going to be like hi father." Fond Mother "I shouldn't be at all surprised. He keeps me up every night, as it is, and is fractious in the morning." Mr. Bronssn "Did you havo an In teresting subject presented for your con sideration this morniug ut church. Mr. ' Bronson "Very. But I couldn't make out whether tho lace trimmings were real or imitation." New York Drummer "How do you account for the gradual decrease iu time between New York an 1 Chicago? Chi caga Drummer (disdaiufully) "Chi cago, sir, is rapidly growing iu an east erly direction." Jewelers' Weekly. Professor (to clots iu surgery) "The right leg ot the patieut, iu you see, is shorter than the left, iu cousequeuce of which beli mps. Now, what would you do in a case of this kind!" Bright Student "Limp, too." Chicago News Record. Charles James Fox, wheu canvaasiug Westminster, applied to a shopkeeper for his vote aud interest. Toe man produced a halter, witu which, he said, he was ready to oblige him. "Tbauk you," replied Fox, "lor your kind oiler, but I should be sorry to deprive you of so valuable $ family relic." Argonaut.
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers